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968 THE LEADER. [Saturday ,
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CEIMINAIi EECOED. John Poole, a plumber,...
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MIS OK LLA.NKOUS. Tiik Queen lias passed...
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Tho Northern M'h' nj Mates that Mr. Rich...
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The revenue of Ireland amounted to 4,286...
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A Spanish brigantine was observed coming...
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Our Sanitary Condition. In Dormondhoy Th...
den said he should willingly avail himself of the suggestion , and handed 16 s . to Mr . Markwick , and 2 s . besides for the summons , and the matter ended . In Paddington there iB a large ditch , formerly emptied into the Serpentine , but now filled vrith rubbish , from which oozes the most offensive matter . Partly in the parish of Upper Chelsea is the Itanelagh sewer , which , from the King ' s-road to the River Thames , pours forth its foatid contents in a broad open channel , thickly surrounded by the habitations" of the poor . The neighbourhood is never entirely free from cases of low fever . The north district of 3 farylebone appears in a bad state . In St . Panoras the stench from the sewers now being cleansed is much complained of by the medical officers .
The inhabitants of St . John ' s-wood and its vicinity complain loudly of the noxious effluvium emitted from the Begent ' s-canal , under which there is a " dip , " into which the surrounding cesspools discharge themselves , leaving a heavy pestilential deposit . The filthy condition of King ' s Arms-yard , Drury-lane , is again exposed by the editor of the Builder . " The miserable condition of the filthy place in which this pump stands is but feebly set forth in the statements published . ' Here about a dozen residences , in a sort of gallery formed over stables , are
ranged around what has been one immense rotting dungheap . I say ' has been , ' because some efforts are now being made to improve its condition . On Monday , men were carting out of it amass of decomposed filth , the smell of which was scarcely endurable , and ' not before it was needed , ' said one of them , with a shake of the head . Close to this spot , the approach to which from Drury-lane has now , appropriately enough , a coffin-maker ' s shop on each side , the great plague of 1665 broke out , and hei'e up to this moment of writing , neglect , ignorance , and laissez faire prepare the way for a fresh pestilence . " ¦
Several small streets leading into the New-road are in a shocking state of filth , and generally unwholesome condition . Families live in small rooms of houses without water-closets or privies , and the state of the houses is most offensive to any one visiting the place . These nuisances are being abated . In St . Pancras the sewers are still bad , and many burialgrounds teem with human remains . " The earth is described as a mass of putrefaction , from which rises of a night a body of miasma , poisoning the surrounding neighbourhood . " A fatal case of cholera occurred in the York-road , "Waterlooroad , on the 3 rd inst . ; one also at the bottom of Stangatestreet , Westminster-road . Since the beginning of the present week several deaths have taken place in the low , filthy courts and streets in the borough ; and there has been a large increase of bowel complaints in several districts .
The great deficiency of the water supply in Southwark and the neighbourhood , while it is a serious privation to many of the poorer classes , adds to tho difficulty of cleansing the streets and yard ' s , and to the removal of various nuisances . Several of the crowded courts have only a single tap for the use of all the inhabitants , who are thus necessitated , when the water is laid on , to collect their stinted supply in an old bucket , fish-kettle , or basin , for the uso of their families . Even the public urinals , which were put up some years ago , have never yet had water laid on for cleansing them . The result is , that they have become a positive nuisance to passers-by .
At Newcastle the epidemic in on tho decline . Tho deaths daily have fallen to ten . The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea in Newcastle , during the present outbreak , has been 143 S . In tho same period ( viz ., the first thirty-fivo days ) during- the prevalence of epidemic cholera thoro in 18 ! il-2 , the number of deaths was 255 . Dr . Molior , tho French doctor , deputed to this country to watch the progress of the cholera , haH visited Newcastle . He states that ho haa hooii tho dirtiest parta of tho worst-conditioned towns in Franco , but thnt none of them are as bad as tho bad parts of Newcastle . Tho epidemic is noarly extinct a . t Gateshoad ; only one person died on Thursday . Tho total number of deaths from cholora and diarrhoea in Gnto . shoarl , to tho proKont date , has been 38 ? . During tho like period ( viz ., tho first twenty-nine daw ) in 1831-2 , tho deaths amounted to 141 .
Siuco last Monday thoro have boon thirteen deaths at Walker . Medical men from Nowcantlo havo visited the town . Four fatal canes of cholera have occurred at Stookton-on-Teos , throo in one house . One fatal caso of cholera has occurred in Darlington . "Wo havo u horrible atory from Liverpool . Tho cholora has broken out among tho Gorman pasHongorH on board tho American omiffrant-ship , Jmac Writ / lit , which put ; back to tho port on TuoHduy , having atruck on a rock off Cape Clear . Before tho vessel reached tho Mornoy forty-seven puHsong-orti wore thrown overboard , und iiftor making tho river throo moro died , and woro carried ashore . It was then found noooHHary to remove a considerable innnbor to tho lionpil . ul at , tho workhouse , throu unfortunate creatures dying m tho oui-tn
on their transit thithor . Hovornl died on Wednesday , und five moro oxpirod on Thiiiwlay . Thoro woro then thirty-oi / . ( hf . Hick omigruntH in tho honpiUil , inniiy of whom are , no doubt , doad boforo thin will moot , tho public oyo . Tho noorerwil . uroH woro loud in tlioir complaints of tho insufficiency mid uiiwholofiomonoHH of tho provision ** on board , nomo of thorn a . snorting tlxih Hovoral of their relatives und friondn had died from positive hunger nud thiiHt ; while they doHeribod tho conduct of ( . he officero mid crow us having boon brutal in Mm extreme . Thoro tiro Htill a fow oasen of cholera in tho Liverpool workhouHo from the American omigraufc whip , Silan ( ireenmun ; but , tho cUhouho among them Iium boon partially overcome , find no dunKoi" i « apprehended in their imiho . 'I'hcini liiLvn l ) i « ui hovoiviI doaMm from cholera in tho town
Hincu Monday . At Houfifliton-lo-iSjiring throo fatal <; anon of cholora havo occurred . In Hiindwliuid , the uiithoritloK havo prohibited tho October fidr . At Hou ^ hton-lo-Spring-, tho ancjont " feast , " has boon poNtponed ; and nil excursion truiiiH in tho neighbourhood liuvo boon HtopjKxl . Tho policy of thono moaHuroii in vory doubtful . In tho Mom 1 , 11 . Bhiohln union forty-two doathH havo occurred ninco tho outbreak of Lho choloru .
The late reports from Tynemouth are favourable . In Grays , Essex , there has been one fatal case of cholera . It is remarkable that , on all occasions of epidemic disease , the Jews escape almost quite free . There are good reasons for this exemption . —1 . It is well known that , however poor the lower ' class of Jews may be , they never crowd mora than one family into a room . 2 . They are not , as a class , given to the abuse of intoxicating liquors . 3 . They , in virtue of their religion , are particular in the food they eg , t . All shellfish is avoided . If any disease is found in a slaughtered animal , it is condemned , and not allowed to be sold for human food . 4 . Sabbath rest is strictly enjoined by their religion . 5 . They are unable , from rehgious motives , to enter our workhouses , and are relieved by the more wealthy of their own persuasion . 6 . The Jewish festival of the Passover enjoins every Jew to have his house thoroughly cleansed annually , and the rooms of the lower classes are for the most part annually limewashed .
Cholera has broken out among the passengers of an emigrant ship , the Silas Greemnan , clearing out from Liverpool . There have been three deaths . The immigration of Germans into Liverpool alarm the authorities , as the immigrants , it is thought , bring the cholera . In Greek-street , Deptford , a very filthy locality , a fatal case occurred on Saturday . A fatal case of cholera took place in Leith , on Thursday week . Vaccination is now compulsory by law . All children must be vaccinated within three months after birth . The Devonshire custom of infecting children with the small-pox , by actual contiguity with the clothes of an infected person , is tho latest illustration of the necessity for this law .
A second case of cholera , not fatal , occurred in Edinburgh , on Monday evening . Several cases have occurred in Berwickshire . In Linlithgowshire there have been six fatal eases .
968 The Leader. [Saturday ,
968 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
Ceiminaii Eecoed. John Poole, A Plumber,...
CEIMINAIi EECOED . John Poole , a plumber , had a large family , and could not obtain employment , or means to support them . He tied , his arms together with a black silk handkerchief , and went into the mill pond at Nine ^ Elms-lane , Battersea , where he ' found dead . Ribbonism is again so rampant in the north of Ireland that a special commission for the county of Monaghan is contemplated . The Chelsea omnibus and the Hackney omnibus were racing . At the corner of Mortimer-street ( near Portlandetreet ) the first omnibus struck against James Mason , and killed him . A verdict of manslaughter has been found against both . Mrs . Elliot , of Liverpool , has sot an example to ladies fearful of housebreakers . On entering her bedroom she noticed a man ' s feet stretching- from under the bed . Instead of screaming , she told her maid to go for a policeman . The burglar rushed from under the bod , and struggled to get to the door , but Mrs . Elliot , who is handsome as well as bold , held him fast until the constable came . The Glasgow news supplies a story of a singular robbery . Mr . Rait keeps a lai-go jewellery shop in Buchanan-street , over which are the warorooms of the Messrs , Campbell . Some thieves got into tho upper rooms , and then commenced boring through tho floor . Tho thick joists wore a difficulty , but they wore stopped more effectually by tho coiling of sheet iron beneath . After attempts in two places ,
they succeeded , in boring a largo hole , and lotting themselves down with a rope . They were now in tho jewellery shop , and forthwith thoy opened tho cjihoh , and daintily , solocted tho best things . Thirty-nino Albert chains , worth 2707 . ; sovonty-onogold brooches , worth 800 / . ; thirty-niuogold bracelets , worth 28 fif . ; were amonp tho booty , which on tho whole amounted in valuo to 'liiH'M . The thieves had skeleton keys for entrance and exit into the Campbell warehouse , but in coming softly out—tlioir booty stowed awny compactly in a carpot bag—tho private watchman of tho warehoufio mot the two men fnco to face . After a short parloy thoy knocked him down ; ho called " Murder , " tho police heard tho crion , the burglars ran , and one was flocured . Ho is a gontlomanliko follow , and of late has beon living- in tho first stylo , at somo of tho bOHt hotels in t . bo country .
Tho body of tho Dublin suicido haH boon finally idontified an that of M'Farlano , a cloHc , who committed forgery on his employers at Jodburgh , and absconded with tho monoy .
Mis Ok Lla.Nkous. Tiik Queen Lias Passed...
MIS OK LLA . NKOUS . Tiik Queen lias passed the week in walks and drives , hiflior and thitlior , about Balmoral . Sir Jnrnea ( Jralinni is u , t pre . sonfc the Minister in attendance . The- Queen is to leave JJiilinoral oa the llith for Wind . sor .
Tho Northern M'H' Nj Mates That Mr. Rich...
Tho Northern M'h ' nj Mates that Mr . Richardson , of Lnmbog , tho Conservative candidate tor Li . sburn , has retired , but thnt . another conservative , tho sou of Dean Stnnnun , in likely to become u candidate for I , i .-il > iun . t A Cabinet . Council , attended by nil tho Ministers in town was hnlit yesterday lit llie l'W (; igii " O < lic . o at two o ' clock . Mr . Gladstone , according lo present arrangements , will appear at , n public luncheon at Manchester , on Wednesday . Addresses will bo presented to I tint on the ' occasion . Tint naval MpiauV . uin left Cork curly on Friday morning for a fortnight ' s cnii . io . Tho Conservative * aro pushing their forces into tho popular hold . At Tottenham , on Tuosday tm . niiiK , they hold a public mooting to promote tho objects of the Coiuorvniivo Laud . Society . Vi « rount lUnolaKli ' and others attended us „ deputation fro m tho society .
I he Quoun , on the recommendation of tho Premier , Inn ju . st grunted a ponniou of 100 / . t . o Sir Frauds Head , and oj 100 / . lo the widow of iho into Mr . Moir ( Delta . ) 1 ho elde . il . dmiKlilor of (^ ueou Olirinlinn of Spain in to bo Kivou in iHiirn . i Kn t , » tl , ( , Nlll , of tht , | ,,, |(< l of ( J ,, Hi Ii « ,, o , || , <> IuHC . au MiiiihUt of L . ' on , i ,, Alluiw . This report b now n til tod positively .
The testimonial to Mrs . Chisholm has reached nhnn * 20001 . out Robert Stephenson has returned to this country from Canada . The widow of Felix Mendelssohn Barthold y was interred at the Friedhof , Frankforton-the-Maine , on Wednesday last : Frau Mendelssohn was only thirty-five" years of a < rI and leaves four orphans . The orchestra under Capell ! meister Schmidt executed Mendelssohn ' noble piece " J ? s ist bestimnit in Gottes Rath . " ' The nevr sheriffs of London and Middlesex were presented to the Cursitor Baron for her Majesty ' s approval , yesterday week . Alderman Wire is the senior sheriff , and Mr . Wallia is his colleague . ,
We observe the Zulu Kafirs have returned to the St George ' s Gallery , where they will give their remarkable exhibition of savage life , for a week only , previous to their departure for one of the most popular . theatres of Paris ; and it is announced by the proprietors , in order to enable all classes of the public to avail themselves of this very limited opportunity , the prices are considerably reduced .
The Revenue Of Ireland Amounted To 4,286...
The revenue of Ireland amounted to 4 , 286 , 514 / . for the year 1852 . The customs and excise contribute more than three millions of the whole amount . . If the Irish Exhibition be closed on the 31 st of this month as at pr »? ent arranged , Mr . Daryan will , it is calculated ' lose 10 , 000 L ' Miss Burdett Coutts has offered to contribute the liberal sums o / lOOJ . towards tha establishment of a model lodginghouse for families in Dublin , and a yearly donation of 51 . for the purpose of helping to form an industriareducationalsckool , to be attached to it .
According to the authority of the Limerick Chronicle a very curious circumstance has occurred in , Dublin garrison which , it is said , must lead to a court ' martial . It appears that a field-officer of the 90 th Light Infantry has placed his commanding-officer under arrest for alleged drunkenness . The last crop of cotton in America amounted to 3 , 2 G 2 , 8 S 2 bales , being 2 47 , 853 in excess of the largest crop—that of the previous year— -ever grown . The new crop will , it is said , show a further increase . The ttlass manufacturers of Birmingham have brought out a new invention likely to be of use . They are window-sashes made mostly of flint glass . The bars are moulded in several lengths , which arc held together by polished steel rods , running through the centre , and enclosed in fluted glass
tubes , which have the effect of harmonizing the bright surface of the rrietal with its outward covering . The joints are concealed by close-fitting moulded rings , and are rendered perfectly air-tiglit , as are also the grooves in which the large plates are inserted . The objects aimed at are , novelty of appearance , increase of light , and facility of cleaning . It will be readily conceived that the latter operation may be more easily performed and at less cost with glass than bras » or any other metallic substance , as -well as without that deterioration of tho fabric which repeated friction in the latter ease must entail . Great strength and durability aro also stated to be attained by this mode of construction , and injuries which might result from violent casualties to which no description of article—whatever its nature—can be considered invulnerable , ndmit of ' easj reparation .
A Mining Stock-Exchange—as a place of meeting for dealers in mining stock mid shares—is talked of in " tho city . " The North Western and the Great . Western Companies compete so keenly in South Staffordshire , that between Shrewsbury and Wellington one may travel at the rate of one penny for eleven miles ! The Jie . l / aal Chronicle says : — " A natural unoasinoM exists at present iu tho minds of merchants and shipowners engaged in the Baltic trade , lost in case of war Russia should place an embargo on British shipping and cargoes coining from the Baltic this month with flax and flax-seed . For tho purpose of , if possiljle , removing tho apprehension * so gonernlly prevalent , or at least of obtaining somo reliable information , Mr . Davison , M P ., nddrcssed a letter to Mr . Cnrdwell , l ' rosidont of the Board of Trado , who replied that Government would Rive the subjoct duo and full consideration . Tho accident on the Great Northern Railway will cost tho company nonrly 20 , 000 / .
A Spanish Brigantine Was Observed Coming...
A Spanish brigantine was observed coming up Channel of ! Sandgato , on Sunday , in dangerous proximity to tho coast . Thorn wan , however , no jack flying from her ninslheud ( o indicate the want , of a pilot , and us this is tho only mean .- ) of ascertaining whether assistance is required or not , tho boatmon on whore contented themselves by looking out , never supposing that on a tolerably calm and very fino ovuiiiiiK tho captain would { prove no ignorant of tho ' const us to run his n )» ip actually a . slior »> . In this they miscalculated , for on arriving opposite the ledge of rocks known as Midpoint , lying between Sandgnte and Folkestone , the biiffan UiKi miih-d directly on to the roof , whom nho becamo fixed , rolling und labouring with every Ma in nn alarming lnnnmr . Her
position was at onco iseen , and a crow of Sundguto fishiiruuiii , who happened to be within easy reach , went to render as . vist « uire . On one of them , a man named Coleinaii , mounting the bulwarks , he found the enptuin and crow on tlioir knots iu prayer . It appears , howovor , the ! i « hormati ' s visit w «» not exactly ( he aid thoy woro imploring , for upon Colouum ntt . oiiipt . ing to Htcj ) oit to tho deck , one of the eiiuv jumped up and dealt the poor fellow a severe blow on tho head with » mnrliiMpilH ) , ' causing the blood to flow freely . Ah well hh thiy could make thtJuiselvoN undorntootl b } ' . signu , ti , <> crow roluMed lo receive any n . s . siNtanco . ' In uboi | t an hour , nl »" ciune nshoro within 100 ynrdu of tho harbour railway station , mid at low water was loll " high and dry" on tho bench .
The price of household bread in Manchester i « Hit . tho 41 b . loaf ; hint year , at thin time , it wan Rfcl . The pri < ' <> <> f milk was raisod lo ' Ad . per quart on Saturday , by agreement among the dealers in that , nrtielo . A military eonoNpoiidont of tho Time * tolls a utory , ixhovvh ) K how noldioi'N vnu bo kept iu order without < l «> gK '" K" 1 had in my company au Irishman \ fh ( m > nuino wns Conolly —a clonn , Hiiinrt , good-humoured , and bravo uoldior , but ho
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 8, 1853, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08101853/page/8/
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